Unlike the last time Bridgeport came here, it didn’t have a good start, it didn’t pepper Jeff Glass with even-strength shots from all over. This time, it could barely get out of its own zone for 20 minutes. And when it did get to the other end, every scoring chance was “just routine. We were […]
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Elmira was in an accident early this morning on the way home from Cincinnati. Best wishes to the driver, who seems to have suffered the worst injuries. —- Brennan and Fata practiced in the morning. Brennan was not to make the trip; Fata was going to travel but wasn’t guaranteed to play. Calling Tim Tookey […]
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Darryl Bootland took part in practice today and appeared to make out OK. Hope he did, because it ended with a good workout: goal line to blue line, five pushups, back to goal line; goal line to far blue, five situps, back to goal line; goal line to goal line and back. Rest, repeat. I […]
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Bad luck for Pascal Morency, who needed surgery to clean out that wound on his hand. Apparently Jake Taylor’s tooth got all the way down to cartilage between the knuckles, and an infection was starting to set in. Two to four weeks. Darryl Bootland was woozy — not sure if he was knocked out, but […]
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(or, “First Cut is the Deepest”) OK, I went and looked it up, so here it is. The Sound Tigers didn’t lose four games in five nights at all through their first three and a half seasons. Since then, they have done it once a season: January 2005 (which included a shootout loss), December 2005 […]
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Here’s where I go, and here’s where I bucked the trend and picked Jamie Johnson first star tonight: There’s about 20 seconds left in the first, and Bridgeport maybe isn’t coming, but they’re in the game after a mind-blowing first six minutes that had them down 3-0. It’s 3-1 after Darryl Bootland’s goal. There’s a […]
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The brass was in town, and they wanted to talk afterwards, and, well, they take precedence sometimes. So two little bits that didn’t make the gamer: –Shawn Bates’ conditioning assignment is indeed over; no extension requested. He’ll rejoin the big club. –Pascal Morency got a cut on his hand in his fight with Jake Taylor; […]
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This is the latest into a season that a Sound Tigers team has ever finished a day in last place in their division. They dropped within two points of last-place Albany a couple of times in February 2005 but always pulled out of it. That says more about the strength of past Sound Tigers teams […]
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(Keepin’ it short… Have to churn out the advance and be at St. Joseph in a frighteningly short period of time…) The biggest difference between Saturday and tonight, from up here, was that Saturday, it felt that they might have a chance to come back. Tonight, it seemed likely. Blame a vintage Frederic Cassivi for […]
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